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An archaic bird (Enantiornithes) from the Upper Cretaceous of Provence (southern France)

2000; Volume: 331; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s1251-8050(00)01451-8

1778-4107

Éric Buffetaut, Patrick Méchin, Annie Méchin-Salessy,

Plant Diversity and Evolution

A tibiotarsus of an archaic bird from the Upper Cretaceous of Fox-Amphoux (Var, southern France) is described and referred to the Enantiornithes. Taken together with other recent discoveries of Late Cretaceous birds from France, this find suggests that at the end of the Cretaceous, the European avifauna was dominated by archaic forms.